BACKGROUND: The aim of this report is to determine the frequency of aberrant drug
behaviors and their relationship to substance abuse disorders in a large primary sample
of patients receiving opioids for chronic pain. METHODS: ...

BACKGROUND: Telomere-related genes play an important role in carcinogenesis and progression
of prostate cancer (PCa). It is not fully understood whether genetic variations in
telomere-related genes are associated with development ...

BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common cause of
complicated skin and skin-structure infection (cSSSI). Increasing antimicrobial resistance
in cSSSI has led to a need for new safe and effective ...

BACKGROUND: The MitoChip v2.0 resequencing array is an array-based technique allowing
for accurate and complete sequencing of the mitochondrial genome. No studies have
investigated mitochondrial mutation in salivary gland ...

BACKGROUND: Cryptococcosis occurring ≤30 days after transplantation is an unusual
event, and its characteristics are not known. METHODS: Patients included 175 solid-organ
transplant (SOT) recipients with cryptococcosis in ...

BACKGROUND: Antibodies (Abs) to the HPV16 proteome increase risk for HPV-associated
OPC (HPVOPC). The goal of this study was to investigate the association of a panel
of HPV16 Abs with risk for OPC as well as the association ...

OBJECTIVES: To develop a sleep hypoxia (SH) in emphysema (SHE) rat model and to explore
whether SHE results in more severe hepatic inflammation than emphysema alone and whether
the inflammation changes levels of ...

BACKGROUND: Both compulsory detoxification treatment and community-based methadone
maintenance treatment (MMT) exist for heroin addicts in China. We aim to examine the
effectiveness of three intervention models for referring ...

The human X chromosome contains ∼ 1600 genes, about 15% of which have been associated
with a specific genetic condition, mainly affecting males. Blue cone monochromacy
(BCM) is an X-linked condition caused by a loss-of-function ...